1 What do the linnets represent? The daughter's anxieties The daughter's thoughts The daughter's artworks The daughter's friends 2 Which of the following contains understatement? "For arrogance and hatred are the wares/Peddled in the thoroughfares." "Imagining in excited reverie/That the future years had come,/Dancing to a frenzied drum," "Have I not seen the loveliest woman born/Out of the mouth of Plenty's horn" "Helen being chosen found life flat and dull/And later had much trouble from a fool" 3 What quality does the speaker most explicitly associate with the tree? Age and wisdom Rootedness in place Physical strength and size Sublime beauty 4 The line "Can never tear the linnet from the leaf" contains which of the following? Assonance Alliteration Onomatopoeia Metonymy 5 Which describes the speaker's attitude towards beauty? Beauty is arbitrary and culturally determined Beauty is defined by what is within rather than by appearances Beauty is something that increases with age and experience Beauty is as dangerous as it is enjoyable 6 What kind of stanzas make up the poem? Quintains Quatrains Sestets Octets 7 What does the word "coverlid" mean? Eyelid Blanket Curtain Jar lid 8 What does the word "reverie" mean? Brook Monument Prayer Daydream 9 Which of the following does the speaker most hope for in his daughter's life? Memorability Stability Artistry Sublimity 10 Which of the following is an instance of personification? "the storm is howling" "to be choked with hate/May well be of all evil chances chief. If there's no hatred in a mind" "Helen being chosen found life flat and dull" "fine women eat/A crazy salad with their meat" 11 What is the poem's rhyme scheme? AABBCDDC ABABCDCD ABBACDDC ABACDCAB 12 What best describes the poem's meter? Trochaic Hexameter Iambic Pentameter Spondaic Monometer Iambic Trimeter 13 What does the word "affrighting" mean? Observing Stopping Frightening Burdening 14 The line "O may she live like some green laurel" is an instance of what? Understatement Synecdoche Hyperbole Simile 15 Which best describes the daughter when the poem takes place? She is very young and asleep She is the same age as her mother was when she was born She is in the midst of a stormy adolescence She is not yet born 16 What does the storm most closely symbolize? Danger and extremes Agricultural abundance Nature's wrath The changing seasons 17 To whom does the phrase "that great Queen, that rose out of the spray," refer? Cleopatra Aphrodite Queen Victoria Helen of Troy 18 Where is the poem set? An Irish woodland Dublin in 1916 The Tower of London A battlefield during World War I 19 What does the word "distraught" mean? Disorganized Mistrustful Upset Uncertain 20 What does the word "courtesy" mean? Nobility Bluntness Politeness Tradition 21 Which of the following is true of the poem? The speaker tells his daughter that he envies her youth The speaker hopes that his daughter will transcend the strictures of traditional femininity The speaker urges his daughter to avoid extremes The speaker instructs his daughter to follow her passions 22 Who is the poem's speaker? A mother with a sick child A man whose wife is pregnant with their first child A martyr for Irish independence before his execution A version of W.B. Yeats himself 23 What is a linnet? A nightgown A candle A bird A baby 24 What does the word "magnanimity" mean? Generosity Overstatement Heat Reason 25 Which of the following is an instance of hyperbole? "May she be granted beauty" "The soul recovers radical innocence" "though every face should scowl" "let her think opinions are accursed."